Mark Marcovino – Law Enforcement and Moving Sushi
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 7 – Marco Marcovino, EU Commission for Monitoring, Control and Surveillance of Fisheries; Multi-party Task team in Tanzania on Environmental Organised Crime, and leads an NPO called Moving Sushi, which provides ope access to an International Marine Database […]
Mining – Gunter Pauli
Gunter Pauli discusses Mineral Wealth and the need to rethink minerals as an engine for development
Mining and Oil – Tar Sands – Canada – Indigenous Environmental Network
Indigenous Environmental Network is a NPO working on behalf of indigenous communities located in areas where Tar Sands are being mined for oil. They are suffering from increasing levels of illness and cancers.
Mining and Oil – Tar Sands – Canadian Youth Protest
Demonstration by Canadian Youth at COP 20 concerning the lack of a coherent climate policy for Canada that would protect the rights of its citizens to a clean environment. Steven Harper’s government
Money and Wealth – Charlie Fraser – Foundation for Common Good
Charlie Fraser from the Foundation for Common Good discusses how money works to protect the position of the wealthy and how this would be different in a sustainable world economy – See further information f-f-c-g.org/team/
NASA Hydrology Satellite observations of terrestrial water cycle
Monitoring of the world’s water resources is challenging due to limited large scale observations, particularly a lack of observations of water beneath the land surface. NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission provides an unprecedented view of the regional net terrestrial water balance, with global coverage, over a now >10 year record. This event […]
NOAA~GFDL Climate Modelling and Predictions in 21st Century
NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Director, Mr V. Ramaswamy, speaks on the capture of Changes in Earths systems, i.e. Atmosphere, Oceans, Land and Ice, etc utilizing high resolution modelling in the 21st century to predict more detailed regional climate mapping and information. In terms of what has been observed, conclusions reached by IPCC AR5 Assessment […]
Nutrition for Health – Heidi du Preez – Food Scientist
Heidi du Preez discusses healthy nutrition – naturalnutrition.co.za/about-us/heidi-du-preez/ Heidi du Preez is a registered Professional Natural Scientist, who obtained her master degree in Food Science. She worked as a Food Scientist in the food industry for six years. While living in the UK for three years, and as a Food Scientist with a personal interest […]
Ocean Acidification – Alicia Harold Carly – OCEANA
Ocean Acidification – Alicia Harold Carly, a Marine Scientist from Oceana.org, discusses how the acidification of oceans is leading to negative impacts on marine species, crashes in marine ecosystems and a decline in coral reefs.
Ocean Pollution – Russell Weston
Ocean Pollution – Russell Weston discusses False Bay Park, the dump site and its effect on the Wetland area, the water table and the surrounding farms. We need to find better ways to recycle and deal with waste production than dumping.
Organised Crime – Discussion
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 19 – Discussion – Global Security and Organised Crime – Inspection of Unseaworthy Vessels leads to uncovering of further crimes such as human trafficking, money laundering. Prosecution of Crimes
Panel and Discussion
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 15 – Question regarding Transnational Crime on the high seas and Criminal Jurisdiction
Per Erik Bergh – Stop Illegal Fishing – Botswana
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 2 – Per Erik Bergh, Stop Illegal Fishing, Secretary, Botswana, the difficulty is that most of these crimes are committed far out to sea and there is no oversight. We are motivating governments to intervene.